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Wandsworth 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XX. (T able 5) B orough of W andsworth— C lapham S ub- D istrict.Infantile Mortality during the year 1 909.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XX. (T able 5) B orough of W andsworth— C lapham S ub- D istrict.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1 909.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.U nder 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3-4 WeeksTotal under 1 Month.i- 2 Months.Months.3-4 Months.4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9—10 Months.10-11 Months.11- 12 Months.Total Deaths under i Year.
All Causes-Certified3086448117974546632112
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases—................................................
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................111.........3
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...........................11...2...1...5
Diarrhoeal Diseases-...................................................
Diarrhoea, all forms.........11......22.........111...8
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..................1...12..................4
Gastritis, Gastro Intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases-...................................................
Premature Birth17222232..............................25
Congenital Defects411173..............................10
Injury at Birth21......3.................................3
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus322...72122.........1.........16
Tuberculous Diseases —...................................................
Tuberculous Meningitis....................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1...1...............2
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..................1...........................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...........................1...............12
Convulsions12......3......21.....................6
Bronchitis..................2............1............5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............23.........1.........113
Suffocation, overlying2.........321...........................6
Other CausesI.........1...1......... .............1...3
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District (or Sub-Division) of Streatham.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1909), 107,220.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,789; illegitimate, 41.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 122 ; illegitimate infants, 11.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 954.